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Date Masters & mistresses names & designations Servants names Quality of servants Number of servants Bachelor servants One and two servants Three and four servants Five to seven servants Eight to ten servants Eleven or more servants Duty
27 Apr 1786 Robert Baikie of Tankerness John Mather Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
27 Apr James Riddoch Collector James Scart Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
28 Apr 1786 Robert Laing Merchant David Bews Footman 1 1 £1.5.0
John Traill of Westness John Loigie and
Hugh Spence
House Stewart
Footman
2 2 £2.10.0
Totall 5 5 £6.5.0

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Survey MALE- SERVANTS TAX within the Town of Kirkwall
from 5th April 1786 to 5th April 1787 By Alexander Fraser Surveyor



I Alexander Fraser Surveyor aforesaid Do hereby certify that the amount of the foregoing Survey of Maleservants Tax
within the Town of Kirkwall from fifth April Seventeen hundred and Eighty Six to Fifth April Seventeen hundred and
Eighty Seven is Six pound five Shillings and I make Oath that this day I delivered to Alexander Loutit Town Clerk
of Kirkwall and Collector of the said Tax For the Town aforesaid an exact Duplicate of the above account examined and
compared with the foregoing.
Alexander Fraser Surveyor

At Kirkwall the 28 November 1786
Sworn before John Wier, J:P. [Justice of the Peace]

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GMB 27 Feb 2014 - valuation format corrected and updated, during period in which no images were available.

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